Windows Phone sales top 877,000 in February, report suggests

According to a recently filed report, nearly 1 million Windows Phone handsets were sold in the month of February alone. Using the same algorithm that successfully predicted when Microsoft hit 1 million units sold, The Next Web estimates that 3.38 million Windows Phone handsets have been sold thus far — 877,000 of which occurred in February of this year. The company’s new mobile operating system, which entered a fairly saturated market place, has posted respectable sales figures since its launch late last year.

Microsoft can also celebrate another, software-related milestone achieved with the Windows Phone ecosystem: 10,000 Marketplace applications. Adding over 1,000 applications in the last two weeks, the Redmond company has pushed its total app count over the five-digit mark. Microsoft officially announced that its mobile store had crossed the 6,000 application threshold back in January of this year. Many Windows Phone users are still waiting for the first major software update to the platform — codenamed NoDo — which is scheduled for release later this month. An subsequent update planned for later in 2011 is scheduled to bring multitasking and support for third-party push notifications to the platform — which should spur application development even further

I am pretty intrigued by WP7, but the lack of basic features such as push notifications is keeping me away at least for now. I’m excited to see where it goes though:)

Guest

What do you mean lacking push notifications? Emails are push. Live tiles have push notifications too

http://twitter.com/mtmjr89 Michael McNeeley

Going by this article, it sounded like most 3rd party apps lack push…is that not true?

Bullyboyb

That’s a nonsense. Push notifications are available on third party apps. My BBC news app pushes breaking news to me via toast notifications, messanger now has toast notifications, i can go on and on. Bgr have no clue what they are writting about outside IOS.

Durishin

While I am finding it incredibly hard to determine if Android will sync Exchange categories and tasks (which WP7 won’t) anyone can look at the home screen of a WP7 phone and figure out that there are push notifications – via the live tiles, What did you think? Those were randomly generated numbers for decoration?

http://ocentertainment.net ocentertainment

I’m more bothered by the lack of universal search.

Frankly, I question the validity of any platform that claims that it gets you to your info faster and does not come with universal search.

Anonymous

great news for those of us developing for WP7 :)

Anonymous

That would be 3.38 million units shipped to retailers, with the units actually purchased by consumers being several hundred thousand below that. Otherwise, MS would just tell us what consumers had bough, as they’ve done with Kinect.

Rich

Agreed…the numbers just don’t add up. I call shenanigans!

jon

Either way, retailers don’t line up for phones that don’t sell any more than consumers do.

Anonymous

I am holding off for now. After using wife’s WP7 a bit. It’s Really good.
Maybe Nokia phones and some software updates and I will try it for my personal phone.
10K apps is great for the amount of time the OS has been on the market, but a LOT of apps are still missing.
I look for apps in marketplace that I have on my iOS device and they just aren’t there yet.
And, I have a Mac and can’t use Zune software… so that alone leaves me out of the WP7 game.
I see lots of potential. Maybe in a year or two I will be carrying a WP7. until then, i’ll jus hang with iphone for a little longer.

Also, I do agree some apps are missing, though most of them are available. The one thing I myself am missing is a good Skype client, but that’s already in the works at XDA-Devs :)

Anonymous

eww, why would you Basterdize a WP7 device with an iTunes sync? It’s made to work with Zune software and Zune pass is Win win.

@j_nathaniel

Windows Phone 7 really needs a make browser upgrade. There were too many things that didn’t work as well as they do on my MyTouch 4G or iPhone. No full screen in portrait but no way to control the browser in full screen in portrait mouse. Seriously?

Anonymous

I would love to own a WP7 phone.

The deal breaker for me would be is I were forced away from Google as a search engine. I really don;t want htta POS Bing on any device I own.

Anonymous

I thought this might be a problem now, but I actually don’t mind.

Using bing works pretty well, and if I need to look up something specific I can always just use the mobile Google site. The first thing I did when I had my device was bookmark it, but I’ve removed it so that a more frequently used one could take its place (to be accessible without scrolling).
I considered renaming it to zGoogle to have it at the very bottom, but since I used it just once so far I decided just to trash it.

Anonymous

Google made a WP7 search app. It works great, Just pin it to the home screen for easy access.

Jtsnyc47

If WP7 got within whiffing distance of 3 million handsets in the hands of consumers, you can bet your ass they’d have a 60 x 90 billboard in the middle of Times Square. This is the same company pushing the term “peripheral” to mean “consumer electronics device”.

Anonymous

I chunked my POS Blackberry Torch and bought a Samsung Focus this past saturday. Wow. WP7 is pretty awesome, even for a 1.0 release. Lightning fast and very unique. My biggest surprise? Internet Explorer. Every bit as good as Safari.
I believe once people start trying out the OS, and more compelling devices reach the carriers, WP7 will take off.

Anonymous

I mostly agree.

I’ve been holding on to my POS Storm for, well, 8 months now I guess, hoping to get either WP7 for Verizon or some incredibly compelling Android device. Still waiting, but it looks like WP7 will end up in my hands sooner (I really dislike the aesthetics of Android, am not overwhelmed by any device, and my needs honestly aren’t enormous – I’m still on a Storm for goddsake!)

The Trophy isn’t exactly a drool-worthy device, either, it wasn’t when WP7 launched and it certainly isn’t now, but I just like the look and feel of WP7 too much to ignore.
I’ll just get a 1 year contract.

Anonymous

No I am not going to buy this bs! MSFT gave away to them more than top on sale. ..

Kevin

BGR I’m surprised at you. Did you guys actually read the “report” you guys are referencing? Since the source “report” estimated all their findings assuming the WP7 sales to manufacturers were in fact sales to consumers the only thing that you can conclude from this “report” is that WP7 maybe sold 877,000 WP7 phones to manufacturers not consumers in February, and even that number is a guess at best.

If you go with the numbers you know it makes a lot more sense…. Canalys reports that Blackberry has 14.4% of the smartphone market with sales of 14.6 Million phones, thus (14,600,000/14.4=1035461) so 1% equals 1.03 Million smartphones. All of Windows smartphones (including Windows Mobile 6.5 and WP7) make up 3.1% of the market according to the same report. Thus sales of ALL Windows smartphones sold to consumers are 3,209,929 units.

So this “report” BGR is referencing implies that WP7 increased its total smartphone (WindowsMobile/WP7) sales by 27.3% and did this all in the month of February alone? Let Microsoft handle its own PR and number bending sales game. Report on the numbers when Microsoft isn’t scared to release them otherwise use stats instead of guesses, thanks.